When charity doesn't care about the hospital

When the wise point to fraud, the fool looks at the gift. In order to justify their unprecedented robbery of public accounts, the new philanthropists argue that after being the best at making fortunes, they will be the best at doing good. We are asked to marvel, to prostrate ourselves before their limitless generosity, which the world cannot do without. The Covid crisis is, from this point of view, paroxysmal: billionaires get richer while the rest of humanity sinks into extreme poverty. To hide this intolerable quantified reality, some of them offer hospitals a few masks, cans of gel, even a few coins... When charity does not give a damn about the hospital, doubt is no longer allowed: it there is something rotten in the kingdom of philanthropy! Demonstrating how France copies the worst of the American system with donors and supposedly corporate patrons applauded by complicit politicians, Vincent Edin severely tackles those who claim to exercise a role of general interest while evading taxes. The essay that denounces the great hypocrisy and the vast scam that philanthropy has become.